Fee

There were more than 7000 cases of fare cheats in our public transport scene just last year. Does this mean there are many poor people in Singapore? Do people actually get their fares back despite train breakdowns? What's going on?

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A mother is crowdfunding for medical fees so that she can send her baby daughter to Boston Children's Hospital to fix her oesophagus. Baby Yujia has a rare birth defect that doesn't allow her to swallow food. She has not eaten anything the proper way since she was born.

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A family struggling with unemployment has been unable to pay their Service and Conservancy charges. Instead of helping them, the Town Council billed them massive penalty and legal fees amounting to $970 - this amount is even higher than the actual conservancy charge they had to pay!

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NUS has demanded ex-student Jeanne Ten to remove her blog post which crowdfunded for legal fees against the university. It warned her that it will enforce its legal rights against her if she did not take the posts down. This comes a little too late as she has already reached her goal of $5000. Jeanne thanked donors for their contributions and said: "I will not give up the fight. Please continue to support me".

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Singaporean Jeanne Ten is crowdfunding for legal fees against NUS as it revoked her Masters' Degree due to her complaint about her thesis supervisor. She has already spent more than $100,000 and exhausted her savings. She has been unemployed since January this year. "NUS has used its own power to bully me and is able to use the legal system to its advantage as a result of the unequal access to resources". Will you help her?

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I refer to the article “Rubbish collection fees for homes to be increased from next year” (Channel NewsAsia, Nov 7). It states that “From Jan 1, 2017, the monthly rubbish collection fee will be S$8.25 for apartments – including HDB flats and condominiums that have not opted out of the public waste collection scheme – and S$27.47 for landed homes. The fees are inclusive of Goods and Services Tax (GST).

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I refer to the article “169 childcare centres run by 23 partner operators to cut fees from 2016” (Straits Times, Oct 19). It states that “About $250 million over five years has been set aside by the Government for the partner operator and anchor operator schemes.” Does this mean that the average spending a year to help parents pay for childcare is only about $50 million a year ($250 million divided by 5 years)?